240 ^FOOTE: SOUTH MAHRATTA. COUNTRY. 



On the banks of the Malprabha^ high-lying quartzite and gneiss 



gravels, forming part of the older alluvium of the 

 Of the Malprablia. . . T , , 



river in considerable quantity^ were noted at 

 Sutgatti (Sootguttee) on the right bank of the river, nine miles west of 

 Sauudatti (Sumoduttee) . 



Extensive traces of old high-level quartzite gravels occur on the 



right bank of the Ghatprabha at Wudugaddi 



Of the Ghatprabha. 



(Woodooguddee) and Chittur; the former place 

 three and the latter six miles westward of Kaladgi. 



Four interesting cases of high-level gravels supposed not to be of 

 fluviatile origin, but to be relics of inter-trappean and infra-trappean 

 deposits almost entirely removed by denudation, have already been 

 described at pp. 168, 196, and 197. 



On the western arm of the zig-zag reach of the Bhima at 

 Alluvial deposits of the ^erozabad, Mr. King noticed, in the steep and 

 ■^^^™^" lofty bank below the village of Hagar Gund 



(Huggur Goond), the remains of a set o£ laminated sandstone and pebble 

 beds. " These beds, in which no trace of fossils could be found, form 

 low cliffs of from 10 to 15 feet high in the river bank. They are 

 good, compact sandstones, but thin-bedded, and some of the thin beds 

 obliquely laminated. The pebbles of the conglomerates are of Chal- 

 cedony, Onyx, &c. The sandstone is evidently a comparatively recent 

 formation. Traces of the same beds are also seen in the side nalas, which 

 are cut deep in the alluvium, or rich brown loamy deposit here filling 

 up the wide valley of the river.^' 



" A short distance north of the same village and close to this 

 bank^ of the river, or inside of it, there are large accumulations of big, 

 roughly-rounded blocks of massive, slightly vesicular dolerite, weather- 

 ing brown, which do not appear to be in sitio, but possibly are 

 indications of boulder banks in this part of the river valley underneath 



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